Sarah Palin vs. Piers Morgan: The Feud Escalates!

In a feud between Sarah Palin and Piers Morgan, whose side will America take? This is not a hypothetical, would-you-rather-be-buried-alive-or-eaten-by-a-shark-type thought experiment—this is real, people. HazMat suits on, emergency preparedness kits out!

“On Friday, a social media spat erupted between Morgan and the former vice presidential candidate, who called Morgan’s show ‘shambolic,’” Politico, naturally, reports. The trouble started, as it always does, on Palin’s Facebook page, via which the half-term Alaska governor revealed that Morgan had asked her to be a guest on his show but she was busy “doing, um, er . . . pretty much anything to accept the invite?” Note that “pretty much anything” does include, technically, “writing about being invited” and, apparently, learning the word “shambolic.”

Morgan, somewhat impressively, responded with a joke even less endearing than Palin’s hyperbole. He tweeted: “Being called ‘shambolic’ by @SarahPalinUSA is most amusing. I wonder if she can see irony from her house?” This is a reference to a thing Sarah Palin said in September 2011—except Morgan isn’t even quoting the line correctly. Palin said that she could see Russia from Alaska; Tina Fey, impersonating Palin on Saturday Night Live, said was the one who added the bit about “my house.”

Two deeply unlikeable television personalities each unconvincingly trying to deflate the other’s bona fides, so who wins? The bloggers of America win, because we will be spared the task of summarizing Sarah Palin’s appearance on Piers Morgan Live. Congratulations, everyone! We did it!